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- Superwoman flies with Salesforce.com's Sites
- Superwoman flies with Salesforce.com's SitesSalesforce.com sucksand so does their whacko CEO. This Truly Begs the Question....Who cares?
- Tags: Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc., Superwoman
- Discussion threads 2009-06-19
- Your Thoughts: How mature are cloud computing services?
- Your Thoughts: How mature are cloud computing services?low end cloud computingIf you want to build your own low cost cloud computing you can try software such as ThinServerhttp://www.aikotech.com/thinserver.htmRE: Your Thoughts: How mature are cloud computing services?Not really mature. There isn't wide spread user adoption. There aren't any real standards. None...
- Tags: Virtualization, Google App Engine, cloud computing, cloud computing service, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-19
- Salesforce opens Sites; offers free version to help push cloud adoption
- Salesforce opens Sites; offers free version to help push cloud adoptionForce.com free edition is a challange for SaaS vendorsI think the option to create 100-user Free account on Force.com platform gonna make a big difference. The thing is it really challanges other vendors and the question is how they will...
- Tags: Sales force management, Force.com, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-18
- Superwoman flies with Salesforce.com's Sites
- Financial services group Superwoman is the first Australian company to pilot Salesforce.com's new Sites product. Financial services group Superwoman is the first Australian company to pilot Salesforce.com's new Sites product released overnight. Companies adopting Sites use Force.com to build a database, defining what data and...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., CRM, Sales Force Management, Sales, Salesforce.com, Superwoman, Sites, Suzanne Tindal ZDNet Australia
- News items 2009-06-16
- News to know: Nokia; Salesforce; Mozilla; Google; Facebook
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Salesforce opens Sites; offers free version to help push cloud adoption Dion Hinchcliffe: Cloud computing and open source face-off...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., Flaw, Palm Inc., Mozilla Corp., Keyboards, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Peripherals
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Salesforce opens Sites; offers free version to help push cloud adoption
- Remember when the corporate Web site consisted of mostly static Web pages: a home page, a handful of pages about the company’s products or services and a place to learn more about the management team, contact sales or even find hours and directions? Times definitely have changed....
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Sales Force, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-14
- CODA: why build on the Force.com platform
- While at SIIA OnDemand Europe, I met with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA. CODA is the first company to build a substantial accounting application on the Force.com platform called CODA2go. In this 8 minute video, Jeremy explains why the company took the decision to make...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Platform, CODA, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- John Peavoy: the best salesperson Salesforce never had
- While in Amsterdam I share a few cold ones with John Peavoy, a salesperson from Ireland who travels extensively around Europe. As we were chatting he showed me Salesforce mobile on his Blackberry. The conversation was so fascinating that I recorded it on video. Excuse the occasional loud...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Salesperson, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- News to know: Salesforce.com; Microsoft; Apple tablet; Google
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Salesforce.com delivers mixed fiscal year outlook: Earnings up, revenue light Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Pop quiz - Which would you choose (Mac vs. PC)? ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Salesforce.com delivers mixed fiscal year outlook: Earnings up, revenue light
- Updated: Salesforce.com delivered a strong fiscal first quarter, but delivered a mixed outlook where it raised its earnings projections based on cost cutting yet pared its revenue forecast. Meanwhile, Salesforce.com's deferred revenue tally was lower than expected. Salesforce.com on Thursday reported fiscal first quarter earnings of $18.4...
- Tags: Revenue, Salesforce.com Inc., Quarter, Earnings, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Salesforce stacks the cloud to ease operations [video]
- ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz shares his views on Saleforce.com’s cloud strategy. He says its new upgrade, Summer '09, is helping customers be more flexible by adding real-time features. [video=301697] by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Video, Corporate Communications, Sales Force Management, Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- Salesforce stacks the cloud to ease operations
- ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz shares his views on Saleforce.com's cloud strategy. He says its new upgrade, Summer '09, is helping customers be more flexible by adding real-time features.
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Strategy, Sales, Management, Salesforce.com, Twitter, CRM
- Videos 2009-05-14
- News to know: University iPhones; Salesforce; Windows 7; Kindle app; DOJ
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Forget the Kindle; University "requires" iPhone Christopher Dawson: Mandatory iPhones at UM worth a bit of...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, U.S. Department Of Justice, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Engineering, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- Salesforce upgrades with case-sharing, new charts and more
- Salesforce.com on Tuesday will announce a major upgrade to its cloud offerings for the enterprise, expected to launch next month. Among them is a feature that's meant to expand sharing between salesforce.com users, the ability to share "cases" so that customers in need of support no longer have to be...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force, Headset, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- Could your software CEO be a TV pitchman? Benioff might...
- Salesforce's CEO & Billy Mays - the ultimate pitch team! satire I (and 600 others) attended the recent Salesforce.com event here in Chicago. Salesforce was promoting its platform-as-a-service PaaS, Force.com. At these events, the different talks have their own highlights but, for me, I...
- Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., PaaS, TV, Force.com, Marc, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Netsuite reports Q1; CEO calls growth "impressive"
- NetSuite, which makes Web-based business software, reported a first quarter net loss of $3.7 million, or 6 cents per share, on sales of $41.6 million, a 22 percent increase over the year-ago quarter. Excluding items, the company reported a first quarter profit of $1 million, or 2 cents per share....
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., NetSuite Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- Oracle about to step up its SaaS efforts?
- Update: Oracle is reportedly getting more aggressive about software as a service with plans to expand its on-demand lineup. The Wall Street Journal and Reuters report that Oracle has been briefing analysts about its SaaS strategy. And apparently these plans go beyond simply buying NetSuite, which is...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Journal, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- Sugar CRM reduces prices across the board, looking for broad adoption
- As I said on my personal weblog yesterday: A day rarely passes that I don’t see another pricing adjustment in the saas world. Today it is SugarCRM that is taking the knife to prices, bringing the cost of a 5 user 'Express' system hosted in the internet cloud...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Board, Sugar CRM, Schenider, Open Source, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- NetSuite Changes Suit(e): Peaceful Coexistence
- Back in the 60s the Cold War left pushed for a solution to the U.S./Soviet ongoing conflict that they termed "peaceful coexistence." NetSuite with its last two announcements, virtually on top of each other, seems to be aimed at selective version of that very same solution -...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Sales Force Management, Sales, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
- Opening the kimono on Salesforce.com's green crystals
- Opening the kimono on Salesforce.com's green crystalsGreat ArticleGreat article Phil, but it's just another layer of green crystals, LOL.The real cost to deliver the service is people, not hardware. Hardware savings through patented query optimizers or any other means is great, but saving incremental ops people through automation is...
- Tags: Sales force management, green crystal, crystal, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-10

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